Acts appearing at Vinyl this week reflect on fatherhood

4:58 PM,
Mar. 13, 2014

Ballyhoo! performs Wednesday at Vinyl Music Hall.

Written by

Michael Smith
| pnjmusic@yahoo.com

When Weston Wilkerson came home one morning, someone was waiting for him. At 4:30 a.m., the man known as DJ Bodyslanga opened his front door. The person waiting was his newborn daughter.

The local DJ had just returned from a gig in Mobile. Wilkerson made the one-hour drive to the show, spent four hours working his turntables, and after packing up his gear, he made the lonely drive home.

Throughout the night, Wilkerson's wife sent messages saying his daughter was still awake. But the distance and time apart didn't matter when the exhausted father came home. ...